Overcoming the Challenges to Private Sector Participation
This report assesses the main governance and financing challenges to private sector
participation (PSP) in the water supply and sanitation sector of Jordan, and provides
ways forward to address them, based on international experience and OECD compendium
of principles and good practices. Using the diagnostic analysis of the governance
challenges to PSP in the Jordan water sector (Chapter 1), the report identifies ways
forward to overcome bottlenecks focusing on three key pillars (Chapter 2): i) managing
public-private partnership in a fiscally constrained environment through appropriate
budget processes; ii) reducing the regulatory risks through supporting the development
of a high-quality framework; and iii)managing and enhancing stakeholder engagement
to improve accountability and buy-in. The report also includes an action plan with
concrete measures to implement the recommendations proposed in the report.
The report has been developed as part of a water policy dialogue conducted by the
OECD jointly with the Global Water Partnership-Mediterranean (GWP-Med) in the context
of the project labelled by the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) “Governance and Financing
for the Mediterranean Water Sector”, with the support of the FEMIP Trust Fund of the
European Investment Bank.
Published on June 04, 2014Also available in: French